Does prolonged sitting affect leg macrovascular and microvascular function differently in young men compared to young women?
Prolonged sitting impairs leg macrovascular function in young men but not young women, highlighting sex differences in vascular responses to sedentary behavior.
We demonstrate that leg macrovascular function was consistently reduced in young men but not young women after prolonged sitting. In contrast, both men and women exhibited similar reductions in leg microvascular reactivity after sitting. These data demonstrate, for the first time, sex differences in vascular responses to prolonged sitting.
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